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All About Audiobooks: A Reading Via Your Ears Challenge
Karen wrote: "Oops, I forgot to add this one that I finished at the end of July#30
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Shakespeare's Landlord (6 hours, 48 minutes)★★★★"I'm working my way through this series and love it! Lily is such a great mix of strength and vulnerability.
Finished book #3 -
- a really good ghost story with a very nasty spirit. It took me a while to warm up to the main character, but the more I read, the more i like her. Aimée Bruneau's narration is fabulous - very immersive and you get a real sense of the atmosphere when she describes everything.
Just finished #49,
. I listened to the new full cast Audible version, and the cast was perfectly chosen, wonderful listen. Really enjoyed it; Neil Gaiman is a great choice to get into the Halloween spirit.
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The only part I didn't like was how people treated Lily when they found out what happened to her. I found there was no empathy and it was all her fault which was kind of strange. Maybe that was normal for the time in small town USA? *shrugs*
I do intend to continue the series, I can get it on audio through my library which is handy :)
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Karen wrote: "The only part I didn't like was how people treated Lily when they found out what happened to her. I found there was no empathy and it was all her fault which was kind of strange."Their reactions made me empathize with her even more. I hate to say it, but their behavior is more common than not. Many people have no idea how to act around someone who has suffered a tragedy and they just want the person to "get over it" and "move on" so that they can feel more comfortable.
Blaming the victim is also something that is, unfortunately, all too common.
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Charlaine Harris writes such interesting characters and places, I've become such a fan!
Karen wrote: "I agree that people don't know how to react and want to encourage someone to "move on", but I found more than one person demonised her for what happened."Wait till you get to book #3 so you can get really aggravated, lol!
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oh no... maybe I shouldn't continue then :o
Karen wrote: "lol!oh no... maybe I shouldn't continue then :o"
Oh but you must. It is a wonderful series and if you like Lily now, you will love her later :0)
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Just finished my 24th audio for this challenge
. I thought it was a very well written memoir. It never felt dry or slow. Even with the subject matter, it wasn't trying to be politically correct or oh poor me. She didn't try to make things funny when they weren't. It came across as being very real and heartfelt. The author narrates the book and the narration was a bit inconsistent, but I felt that hearing it in her own voice helped to portray her emotions. Currently listening to
. So far, it is very good. But, it doesn't fit into my challenge anywhere!! I have very few books planned that will fit in soon. Hopefully, I will find time to get to the books that I have planned specifically for this challenge. I still have a couple slots that haven't been pre-planned for this challenge ( I need a 30-35 hr and a 35-40 hr book!), so those should be fun to come up with it. :)
Finished book #4 -
- a good urban fantasy story. The world building does have a tendency to overshadow the mystery and the villain's identity is quite predictable. Nevertheless, I liked the heroine and the other secondary characters so I will be continuing with the series. Mary Robinette Kowell's narration is pretty good. I did listen at x1.25 speed but her accents are great (especially the Irish fae) and the heroine is spot on.
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Book 2 in the Lily Bard series. This is a very good series on audio, I quite like the narrator and the book is easy to follow on audio
NBRC: All About Audio BooksDate: 11/01/14 - 10/31/15
Level: Director (25-30 Books
29/29 Completed
Option Three: Spell-It-Out
CATEGORY: Digital Download Freebies
Challenge Link: NBRC: All About Audio Books
BOOKS ON TAPE
✔1. B = Bella Love|Spin|02.01.15|♥♥♥
✔2. O = O'Reilly, Bill|Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot|12.09.14|★★★
✔3. O = One Plus One|Jojo Moyes|12.10.14|★★★
✔4. K = Kearsley, Susanna|The Winter Sea|12.22.14|★★★★
✔5. S = Scott Lynch|The Lies of Locke Lamora|11.12.14|★★★★
✔6. O = Oliveira, Robin|My Name is Mary Sutter|01.21.15|♥♥♥♥
✔7. N = Nora Roberts|Chasing Fire| 11.06.14|★★★★
✔8. T = That Summer|Sarah Dessen|12.19.14|★★
✔9. A = Angels & Demons|Dan Brown|11.10.14|★★★★
✔10. P = Peril at End House|Agatha Christie|12.22.14|★★★
✔11. E = Emma|Jane Austen|11.08.14|★★★★★
AUDIBLE
✔12. A = Anne Morrow Lindbergh|Susan Hertog|11.18.14|★★
✔13. U = Unger, Lisa|Fragile|11.28.14|★★★
✔14. D = Dead Sleep|Greg Iles| 11.17.14|★★★★
✔15. I = Iggulden, Conn|The Death of Kings|12.02.14|★★★★
✔16. B = The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After|Julia Quinn|02.02.15|♥♥♥♥
✔17. L = Last to Know|Elizabeth Adler|11.04.14|★★★
✔18. E = E. Lockhart|The Boyfriend List|11.20.14|★★★★
LIBRARY
✔19. L = The Last Song|Nicholas Sparks|12.05.14|★★★★
✔20. I = I've Got Your Number|Sophie Kinsella |12.05.14|★★★★
✔21. B = Benjamin, Melanie|Alice I Have Been|12.10.14|★★
✔22. R = Rescue My Heart|Jill Shalvis|11.07.14|★★★
✔23. A = Among the Mad|Jacqueline Winspear|11.26.14|★★★
✔24. R = Robert Hilburn|Johnny Cash: The Life|11.15.14|★★★★
✔35. Y = Young, Samantha|Fall from India Place| 03.23.15|♥♥♥♥
IPOD
✔26. I = I is for Innocent|Sue Grafton |01.18.15|♥♥♥♥
✔27. P = Patterson, James|Violets Are Blue|01.02.15|♥♥♥
✔28. O = One Summer|Karen Robards|02.25.15|♥♥♥
✔29. D = The Da Vinci Code|Dan Brown|12.08.14|★★★
☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀CHALLENGE COMPLETED 03/23/15☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀
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Finished book #5 -
- I just love this series. The characters, the town, the mysteries all work so well together and Julia Gibson IS Lily Bard for me. I'm sad that I only have one more book to go :0(
Check out my latest audiobook score!Seven free audiobooks from Bolinda.
And some chocolate!
http://heysaidrenee.blogspot.com.au/2...
I'm currently listening to two audiobooks, Code Name Verity and Big Little Lies. I'm enjoying both, so they are battling for my listening time!
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Great narration by Stephen Fry
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Seven free audiobooks from Bolinda.
And some chocolate!
http://heysaidrenee.blogspot.com.au/2..."
I didn't quite get your haul, but I'm pretty stoked to get this today
Nice one Karen. We will have to Buddy Read that one, maybe next year, it's all a bit nuts at the moment!
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Excellent deal ladies! Wonder if they ship overseas??
Finished books #6 and #7:
- Some excellent developments in this installment. Liv Andersen's narration is still slow but x1.25 speed solves that problem nicely. 
- I love Vlad and Leila's dynamic in these books and Tavia Gilbert is so good at portraying the tension and excitement of their relationship.
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Celebrity narrator (Stephen Fry)
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Most of my audiobooks don't fit in my challenge right now. I'm thinking about stopping wherever I am at the end of the year and starting again on Jan 1st, making it a yearly challenge for myself. I got much further than I originally expected to and I've still got plenty of time before the end of the year to make progress.
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I was thinking of making a second level for this challenge too at some point
Hi, I would like to try this challenge since I listen to Audiobooks a lot. It is my first challenge ever and my first time posting, so if I make a mistake please let me know.Level: Director
Option: Freestyle
Start date:Nov22, 2014
◈ Female Narrator
An audiobook with one female narrator.
◈ Male Narrator
An audiobook with one male narrator. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Narrated by Rupert Degas finished 12/14/14
◈ Duets
An audiobook with one female and one male narrator.
◈ Full Cast
An unabridged audiobook with several narrators; there is a narrator per character (e.g. American Gods by Neal Gaiman). To find these, you can search most sites by the term “Full Cast.”
◈ Dramatizations
An abridged audiobook with background music/noises like the “old school” radio plays (e.g. BBC Radio Drama Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett). Also known as “Performance” audios, if you’re doing a search.
◈ Celebrity Narrator
Category name says it all: Somebody famous narrates. Examples: James Marsters reading Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series or Anne Hathaway reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. BTW, when searching, audible.com is calling this their “A-List Collection.”
◈ New-to-Me Narrator
A narrator that you haven’t heard before.
◈ Favourite Narrator
A narrator that you have heard and loved before and would recommend to others.
◈ Volunteer Narrator
A narrator that is not professional, but volunteers to read books. (Such as those used on librivox.org)
◈ Less Than 3 Hours
An audiobook that you can read in one day!
◈ Between 3 - 5 Hours
An audiobook that falls in this range.
◈ More Than 5 Hours to 9.9 Hours
An audiobook that is over 5 hours in length.
◈ 10 Hours to 14.9 Hours
An audiobook that is a CHUNKSTER! ;) More than 10 hours in length, but less than 15. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption 14 hours
◈ 15 Hours to 19.9 Hours
An audiobook that is a Colossal Chunkster! More than 15 hours in length, less than 20.
◈ 20 Hours to 24.9 Hours
An audiobook that is a Super Colossal Chunkster! More than 20 hours in length, less than 25.
◈ 25 Hours to 29.9 Hours
An audiobook that is a Super-Duper Colossal Chunkster! More than 25 hours in length, less than 30.
◈ 30 Hours to 34.9 Hours
An audiobook that is a Monstrous Chunkster! More than 30 hours in length, less than 35. Outlander 33 hours long, finished November 24.
◈ 35 Hours to 39.9 Hours
An epic, indeed! More than 35 hours in length, less than 40.
◈ 40 Hours and Beyond – or a Trilogy!
Beyond epic, indeed! Time to implant ear buds in your head. Forty hours or more! For this one we will also allow a trilogy that qualifies in length, or three books anywhere within a series, if you “read” all of it/them via audio.
◈ In-Sync Multimedia
Use an audible sync option to read-along! Such as the new read-along with your Kindle option by audible.com called Whispersync, which remembers your last stopping point in either device. However, you may read a book using any two media choices your desire, as long as one of them is via audio.
The Sisterhood
finished 12/10/14
◈ Planes, Trains, or Automobiles with an Audiobook
Go on a road trip, holiday, or just listen during your daily commute to work while “reading” in your car or public transportation!
◈ Multitasking! Listening on My Portable Music Player (PMP) Audiobook
Put on those headphones, get cleaning, gardening, grocery shopping, power-walking, even knitting while “reading” a book! Use your Smartphone, MP3, Walkman, portable CD player, iPod, episodic podcast, whatever! Just make Oprah proud.
◈ Audie Award Nominees and Winners
You be the judge. Try an audiobook that has been nominated or won an Audie – any category counts – and lists may be found at audiopub.org (look to the right of the screen for past years). The Goldfinch Audie Award Winner, Solo Narration - Male, 2014
◈ Recommended by Others
Audiobooks recommended by your friends or other NBRC members.
◈ BOM via Audiobook
Read a NBRC Book of the Month via audio.
◈ “Buddy Read” via Audiobook
Read a “Buddy Read” book via audio and/or listen to your book with another person.
The Name of the Wind
◈ Classic Read
Have you always wanted to broaden your reading horizons and get to that classic everyone seems to talk about? Try it via audio.
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Hello everyone :) I am finally getting the hang of NBRC after joining in on the current Tower Teams challenge, and exploring this group for the last couple weeks. I think I'm ready to do a for-reals challenge now, and this is the perfect one for me! :) I have been listening to audiobooks as my main source of "reading" for several years now, and I'm now so addicted to them that I don't know if I'd stop even if my commute went away :) Dates - 11/23/14 - 11/24/15
Director (25-30 books)
Want It All! (one of each category)
Current Total - 3/30
◈ Female Narrator
◈ Male Narrator
◈ Duets
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- Read 12/3◈ Dramatizations
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Lock In - Read 12/2Wil Wheaton is narrating
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Shards of Honour - Read 11/26Grover Gardener is narrating it, who is new to me! Looks like he does a lot of non-fiction according to my audible search x_x I hope he's able to do the voices justice! :)
◈ Favourite Narrator
◈ Volunteer Narrator
◈ Less Than 3 Hours
◈ Between 3 - 5 Hours
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- read 12/5◈ 10 Hours to 14.9 Hours
◈ 15 Hours to 19.9 Hours
◈ 20 Hours to 24.9 Hours
◈ 25 Hours to 29.9 Hours
◈ 30 Hours to 34.9 Hours
◈ 35 Hours to 39.9 Hours
◈ 40 Hours and Beyond – or a Trilogy!
◈ In-Sync Multimedia
◈ Digital Downloads Freebies
◈ Doing it “Old School”
◈ Planes, Trains, or Automobiles with an Audiobook
◈ Multitasking! Listening on My Portable Music Player
◈ Audie Award Nominees and Winners
◈ Recommended by Others
◈ BOM via Audiobook
◈ “Buddy Read” via Audiobook
◈ Classic Read
◈ Re-Read a Favourite
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Karen wrote: "Woohoo! Welcome Melike!"Thank you Karen! I have a question: Do i repost the whole thing every time I add a new book or do I edit my original post?
Most people just edit their original post and some add a new post mentioning the latest book they finished.
Karen wrote: "Sure Kristie :)I was thinking of making a second level for this challenge too at some point"
Oh! A second level would be so fun too! :)
Melike wrote: "Karen wrote: "Woohoo! Welcome Melike!"Thank you Karen! I have a question: Do i repost the whole thing every time I add a new book or do I edit my original post?"
We've mostly been updating our original list and some of us add a comment to say which book we just finished and what we thought of it. It helps when you're trying to decide which audio book to read to see what others thought of the narration. Also, one of the challenge topics is to listen to a book that someone else recommends, so you can probably get some recommendations on this thread. No need to repost your whole list each time though. I hope you have fun with your first challenge!!
Joining in this challenge to whittle down some of my audiobook TBR pile. I have an audible subscription and I find they're great to listen to while crafting (so the multitask category would probably apply to all of mine!)I will aim for Audio Technician: 11-15 books.
Duration: 26 Nov 2014 to 25 Nov 2015.
Some of the books I want to include are as follows (I want to use a different category for each):
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The Help - Kathryn Stockett, read by Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer and Cassandra Campbell (recommended to me)
True Grit - Charles Portis, read by Donna Tartt (female narrator)
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance - Lois McMaster Bujold, read by Grover Gardner (Audie winner)
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Fool Moon - Jim Butcher, read by James Marsters (celebrity narrator)
Coraline - Neil Gaiman, read by Dawn French (Between 3 - 5 Hours)
Northern Lights - Phillip Pullman, read by the author and full cast (full cast)
Sharpe's Tiger - Bernard Cornwell, read by Rupert Farley (new to me narrator)
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A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Derek Jacobi (classic)
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Finished my take on the challenge; it was harder than it appeared!
Count me in too! I'm going to do Option 3, the spell-it-out, and I'm going to use only audiobook titles or authors' or narrators' names. Since I get most of my audiobooks from the library, I'm adding that to my list of words to spell :)
ALL ABOUT AUDIOBOOKS, 5/6/14 - 5/5/15
28/28 COMPLETED
AUDIOBOOKS - COMPLETED 11/1
✓ A - The Anatomist's Apprentice (Dr. Thomas Silkstone #1), by Tessa Harris, finished 7/2 ★★★
✓ U - author Iris Johansen - The Ugly Duckling, finished 8/13 ★★★.5
✓ D - narrator Jeremy Davidson - The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, by Robert M. Edsel, finished 5/19 ★★★★
✓ I - author Ian Fleming – The Man with the Golden Gun (James Bond #13), finished 11/1 ★★★
✓ O - One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, by by Ann Voskamp, finished 5/12 ★★★
✓ B - author Russell S. Bonds - Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor, finished 7/12 ★★★.5
✓ O - One Summer: America, 1927, by Bill Bryson, finished 6/22 ★★★★
✓ O - Oath of Office (Dr. Lou Welcome #1), by Michael Palmer, finished 6/28 ★★★
✓ K - author Ellen Klages - The Green Glass Sea (Green Glass #1), finished 7/7 ★★★★
✓ S - Silver Girl, by Elin Hilderbrand, finished 5/31 ★★★.5
iPOD - COMPLETED 10/1
✓ I - Indemnity Only (V.I. Warshawski #1), by Sara Paretsky, finished 10/1 ★★★★
✓ P - A Presumption of Death (Lord Peter Wimsey #2), by Jill Paton Walsh, finished 7/22 ★★★
✓ O - author Perri O'Shaughnessy – Case of Lies (Nina Reilly #11), finished 7/25 ★★★.5
✓ D - author Charles Darwin - The Voyage of the Beagle, finished 5/26 ★★★
LIBRARY - COMPLETED 9/15
✓ L - author Elizabeth Lowell - Night Diver, finished 8/18 ★★★
✓ I - Insane City, by Dave Barry, finished 9/15 ★★.5
✓ B - narrator Dennis Boutsikaris – Power Play, by Joseph Finder, finished 8/7 ★★★★
✓ R - author Robert Harris - Pompeii, finished 6/7 ★★★★
✓ A - author Agatha Christie - Ordeal by Innocence, finished 8/24 ★★★
✓ R - character Robbie - The Confession, by John Grisham, finished 6/12 ★★★
✓ Y - You Belong To Me, by Mary Higgins Clark, finished 8/29 ★★★.5
AUDIBLE - COMPLETED 11/28
✓ A – Act of Treason (Mitch Rapp #9), by Vince Flynn, finished 9/8 ★★★★
✓ U – Under the Lake, by Stuart Woods, finished 11/20 ★★★
✓ D – narrator Jonathan Davis – Kenobi, by John Jackson Miller, finished 9/3 ★★★★
✓ I – author Greg Iles – Turning Angel (Penn Cage #2), finished 11/27 ★★★.5
✓ B – narrator Buck Schirner – Monkeewrench (Monkeewrench #1), by P.J. Tracy, finished 10/11 ★★★★
✓ L – The Lost Key (Brit in the FBI #2), by Catherine Coulter & J.T. Ellison, finished 10/21 ★★★★
✓ E – Enigma, by C.F. Bentley, finished 10/25 ★★★
***** CHALLENGE COMPLETE 11/28 *****
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37 & 38 completed
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*30 Hours to 34.9 Hours
*over 40 hours (or a trilogy)
*full cast
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they are the 3 I'm stuck on right now
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#30
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Shakespeare's Landlord(6 hours, 48 minutes)★★★★